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unitlengthrod, pole, perch, unit of length typically of 5.5 yards (approximately 5 metres):
(
1315
)
chescun fra une rode de haye (=fence) entour la priorie
YBB Ed II xvii 155
(
1380
)
un mantelett (=fortified outer wall) de freeston [...] contenant en longure par estimacion unze rodes
Buildsalz 460
♦unitagriculturalrood, square measure of land of a quarter of an acre:
(
1316
)
.xx. acres de terre unt esté purchacez par parceles [...] par acres et demi et rodes
YBB Ed II xx 69
(
1343-44
)
avoms [...] lessez a sire William [...] tout le gardyn de nostre pomerie de Naffreton, sauve a nous une rode de terre juxte nostre graunge devers le west
Percy Ch 193
unitagriculturalhalf rood, square measure of land of an eighth of an acre:
(
1308-09
)
A nostre seigneur le roy [...] mustre Henry [...] qe come il [...] recoverist Johan le Teuler un demy rode de terre [...] en la vile de Kelkefeld, de quele demy rode de terre [...] le dit Henry feust seisi
Rot Parl1 i 276
(
1308-09
)
dedenez quele demye rode de terre il i ad un molyn plaunté
Rot Parl1 i 276
rode1 (1306)